Editing Frederick V of the Palatinate (section)

==Youth, 1596–1610==
[[Image:Locator Electoral Palatinate within the Holy Roman Empire (1618).svg|thumb|right|200px|Map showing the [[Electoral Palatinate]] in the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. As son and heir of [[Frederick IV, Elector Palatine]] (1574–1610), Frederick was the hereditary ruler of the Palatinate.]]
Frederick was born on 26 August 1596<ref name="britannica"/><ref name="Leibnitiana"/> was born at the [[Jagdschloss|hunting lodge]] ({{langx|de|Jagdschloss}}) in Deinschwang, [[Electoral Palatinate|Palatinate]] (present-day [[Lauterhofen]], [[Germany]]). His father, [[Frederick IV, Elector Palatine|Frederick IV]], was the ruler of [[Electoral Palatinate]]; his mother was [[Louise Juliana of Nassau]], the daughter of [[William I of Orange]] and [[Charlotte of Bourbon|Charlotte de Bourbon-Monpensier]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Geoffrey |last=Parker |title=The Thirty Years' War |publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd |year=1997 |page=53}}</ref> Frederick was related to almost all of the ruling families of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] and a number of diplomats and dignitaries attended his baptism at Amberg on 6 October 1596. The [[House of Palatinate-Simmern|Palatine Simmerns]], the elder branch of the [[House of Wittelsbach]], were noted for their attachment to [[Calvinism]]; this was in marked contrast to the other [[cadet branch]] of Wittelsbachs, headed by Duke [[Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria|Maximilian]] of Bavaria, which was deeply devoted to the Roman Catholic Church.

The capital of the Palatinate, [[Heidelberg]], was suffering from an outbreak of [[bubonic plague]] at this time, so Frederick spent his first two years in the [[Upper Palatinate]] before being brought to Heidelberg in 1598. In 1604, at his mother's urging, he was sent to [[Sedan, Ardennes|Sedan]] to live in the [[Court (royal)|court]] of his uncle [[Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon]]. During his time at Sedan, Frederick was a frequent visitor to the court of [[Henry IV of France]]. His tutor was Calvinist theologian [[Daniel Tilenus]], a professor of theology at the [[Academy of Sedan]]. During the [[Eighty Years' War]] and the [[French Wars of Religion]], Tilenus called for the unity of Protestant princes, and taught that it was their Christian duty to intervene if their brethren were being harassed. These views are likely to have shaped Frederick's future policies.